From: "Patrick Mitran" <pmitran AT tsp DOT ece DOT mcgill DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: libm question
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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 14:04:59 GMT
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Patrick Mitran wrote:
>
> > The program I'm writting should eventually run on unix/Linux boxes (for
> > my personal use only) so using the erfc() is not going to make my code
> > portatble.
>
> ??? AFAIK, erfc is available on most modern systems, including Unix and
> GNU/Linux systems.  You need to link with -lm, but that's all.
>
> So why did you think erfc makes your code non-portable?

Well, because it says that none of the variants of erf are ANSI in the
libm info. Now if it turns out that the systems I need it on do have
erfc in the libm library, then that solves my problem.

Patrick